LibriVox recording of The Life of Samuel Johnson, Vol. III, by James Boswell. This is the third volume of the Biography of Samuel Johnson. Samuel Johnson's Life has been documented in great detail by his friends, this biography being originally published by James Boswell, and then edited several times by other persons, such as John Croker, who have been friends of both Samuel Johnson as well as James Boswell. Already famous during his life time, Samuel Johnson's biography attracted considerable...
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LibriVox recording of Sappho: A New Rendering, by Sappho and Ovid. Translated by H. De Vere Stacpoole. Read by Libby Gohn. Sappho lived in the Greek-speaking Aeolian islands off the coast of Turkey. She is one of the very few female poets from antiquity. Although her work was very popular in ancient Greece and Rome, only small fragments survive today. This book includes translations of these fragments, as well as a poem from Ovid's Heroides, "Sappho to Phaon," a fictional letter from...
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Librivox recording of Sara Crewe: or, What happened at Miss Minchin's boarding school, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Read by Patricia Oakley For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org Download M4B (56MB)
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Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/137
LibriVox recording of Scarhaven Keep by J. S. Fletcher. Read by Cathy Barratt. The northern English sea coast provides a compelling backdrop for this genre of writing; a mysterious disappearance, a love interest, and plot twists 'se mijotent' to produce an intriguing read. (Summary by Cate Barratt) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more...
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LibriVox recording of The Scarlet Pimpernel, by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. In the year 1792, the French Revolution is in the midst of its bloodiest stage. Aristocrats are being executed left and right by the Republic when the guillotine begins to be repeatedly cheated of aristocratic victims due to a series of daring rescues carried out by a mysterious hero known only as “The Scarlet Pimpernel.” Nothing is known about this person, save that he is a master of disguise, has saved dozens of...
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Scènes de la vie privée tome II (3-9-42) par Honoré de Balzac, lu pour Librivox par Bernard. Ce n'était pas une petite tâche que de peindre les deux ou trois mille figures saillantes d'une époque, car telle est, en définitif, la somme des types que présente chaque génération et que La Comédie Humaine comportera. Ce nombre de figures, de caractères, cette multitude d'existences exigeaient des cadres, et, qu'on me pardonne cette expression, des galeries. De là, les divisions si...
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Scènes de la vie de province tome I par Honoré de Balzac, lu pour Librivox par Bernard. Ce n'était pas une petite tâche que de peindre les deux ou trois mille figures saillantes d'une époque, car telle est, en définitif, la somme des types que présente chaque génération et que La Comédie Humaine comportera. Ce nombre de figures, de caractères, cette multitude d'existences exigeaient des cadres, et, qu'on me pardonne cette expression, des galeries. De là, les divisions si naturelles,...
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LibriVox recording of The Sea-Witch by Maturin Murray Ballou Maturin Murray Ballou was the author of dozens of books, chiefly centered around his extensive sea travel. He was deputy navy-agent in the Boston Custom House and circumnavigated in 1882, collecting material for several travel accounts and various nautical romances, amongst which The Sea-Witch can be counted. (Summary by Gesine) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 24 different recordings of Sea Fever by John Masefield. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of September 16th, 2007. For more information on the readers, please visit the catalog page: http://librivox.org/sea-fever-by-john-masefield/ . For more free audiobooks, or to find out how you can volunteer, please visit librivox.org . Download M4B (15MB)
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LibriVox recording of The Seats of the Mighty, by Gilbert Parker. For the time of his story Mr. Parker has chosen the most absorbing period of the romantic eighteenth-century history of Quebec. The curtain rises soon after General Braddock's defeat in Virginia, and the hero, a prisoner in Quebec, curiously entangled in the intrigues of La Pompadour, becomes a part of a strange history, full of adventure and the stress of peril, which culminates only after Wolfe's victory over Montcalm. The...
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LibriVox recording of Poems: Series One, by Emily Dickinson. Read by Shurtagal. Renowned poet Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) wrote many many poems. This collection, "Poems: Series One", presents the first installment of the complete poetic works of Miss Emily Dickinson. It is broken into four parts: Life, Love, Nature, and Time and Eternity. The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called "the Poetry of the Portfolio,"--something produced...
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LibriVox recording of Poems: Series Two, by Emily Dickinson. Read by Laura Atkinson. "The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness and simplicity in approaching the greatest themes,—life and love and death. That "irresistible needle-touch," as one of her best critics has called it, piercing at once the very core...
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LibriVox 's weekly poetry project for the week of April 16, 2006: The Rhodora , by Ralph Waldo Emerson. To celebrate Earth Day , LibriVox volunteers bring you six different recordings of The Rhodora , by Ralph Waldo Emerson. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of April 16th, 2006. (Summary by Annie Coleman) For information about our readers, see our catalog page: http://librivox.org/the-rhodora-by-ralph-waldo-emerson/ For more free audiobooks, or to find out how you can volunteer,...
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LibriVox recording of Richard II, Makers of History, by Jacob Abbott, read by Cathy Barratt. Chronicles the life of Richard II, born in 1367 in Bordeaux, France, who later wore the crown of King of England. (Summary by Cathy Barratt) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit...
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LibriVox recording of The Riddle Ring , by Justin McCarthy (1830–1912). Read by Ruth Golding . This romantic mystery - or mysterious romance - tells the tale of jilted lover, Jim Conrad, who discovers an unusual gold ring while on a visit to Paris. What is the story of the ring? Why is Clelia Vine so sad? Who is the nameless 'chief'? And how is a dour English barber in a Parisian salon mixed up in all this? The novel, published in 1896, was written by Justin McCarthy, an Irish nationalist,...
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LibriVox recording of Rinkitink in Oz , by L. Frank Baum. Prince Inga lives a happy life on the island of Pingaree until one day invaders from the north enslave every person on the island, including his parents. Inga, who escaped unnoticed in an apple tree, visiting King Rinkitink who had fallen in a well, and surly talking donkey Bilbil embark on a quest to save the Pingareeans. Armed only with three magic pearls that imbue strength, invincibility, and wisdom, the three take on the open sea,...
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LibriVox recording of The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Volume 1 The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes was a British TV series from the early 70s that dramatized stories written contemporaneously with the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This anthology contains twelve of the thirteen stories adapted as episodes for the first season. Sadly, one story, "The Missing Witness Sensation" by Ernest Bramah, is not public domain in the U.S., but can be read in the anthology Max Carrados...
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LibriVox recording of THE ROAD TO OZ, by L. FRANK BAUM. Read by Phil Chenevert Dorothy and Toto set out to help the Shaggy Man (who really is very shaggy) and end up lost, following a strange new road. Along the way they meet Button Bright, a little boy who is not really very bright at all, The Rainbow's Daughter, the Fox King and many other curious creatures including the deadly Scoodlers who want to make soup of them and the Musicker who can't stop making music. But the adventurers make their...
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LibriVox recording of the Robert Burns 250th Anniversary Collection. Robert Burns, the national bard (poet) of Scotland was born on the 25th January, 1759. Scotland and all Burns fans the world over, including Librivox, were celebrating the 250th anniversary of Burns' birthday throughout 2009 and it seemed only proper to record a collection of his poems and songs. This collection also includes works from other poets and writers who have written about Burns. (Summary by Joseph Finkberg) For...
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Librivox recording of Roemische Geschichte Buch 2 , by Theodor Mommsen. Read in German by redaer. Mommsen (1817-1903) erhielt für die Römische Geschichte 1902 den Nobelpreis für Literatur. Zweites Buch: Von der Abschaffung des römischen Königtums bis zur Einigung Italiens (Summary by redaer) For further information, including links to M4B audio book, online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this...
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LibriVox recording of 路上 (Rojyoo) by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. Read by ekzemplaro. 英文科の学生、俊介は、小雨の中に、若い女を見かける。一週間後、同人誌「城」の音楽会で、その女性と再会する。俊介の友人、野村のフィアンセ、初子のいとこで辰子と紹介される。そして、また数日後、電車の中で再会する。更に、野村の代役として、初子、辰子と３人で、精神病棟を見に行く。 This is...
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LibriVox recording of Rose O' the River by Kate Douglas Wiggin. Rose Wiley is a pretty country girl. She's engaged to Stephen Waterman, a country boy. She is quite content, until Claude Merril, a man from Boston, tells her that her love is ruining Stephen's life. A cute coming-of-age novel. (Summary by Charlotte Duckett) Cast Narrator/Mrs. Wiley: Elizabeth Klett Stephen Waterman/Ike Billings: Charlotte Duckett Rose Wiley: Libby Gohn Mr. Wiley: MaryAnn Under-Boss/Jed Towle/Long...
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LibriVox recording of The Rosicrucian Mysteries, by Max Heindel, read by KirksVoice A primer for those interested in the basic philosophy, beliefs & secrets of the Rosicrucians. (Summary by Kirk Ziegler) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B audio book (110mb)
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LibriVox recording of The Rover (Part One) by Aphra Behn. The Rover, or The Banish'd Cavaliers, is a play in two parts written by the English author Aphra Behn. The first part features multiple plot lines, dealing with the amorous adventures of a group of Englishmen in Naples at Carnival time. The "rover" of the play's title is Willmore, a rakish naval captain, who falls in love with a young woman named Hellena, who has set out to experience love before her brother sends her to a...
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LibriVox recording of Ruth of Boston: A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, by James Otis. Read by Laura Caldwell. James Otis wrote a series of books depicting life in the new colonies, written from a child's point of view. Ruth of Boston is the story of 12 year old Ruth, coming from London to live in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It gives accounts of what a girl's daily life might have been like during the beginnings of this colony. (Summary by Laura Caldwell) For further information,...
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Le livre de Ruth lu pour Librivox par Ezwa. Ce huitième livre de la Bible, traduite par Louis Segond au XIXe siècle et publiée au début du siècle suivant, nous rapporte comment Ruth la Moabite, d'étrangère qu'elle était en Israël, deviendra l'ancêtre du roi David et, par lui, celle de Jésus-Christ. « Où tu iras j'irai, où tu demeureras je demeurerai ; ton peuple sera mon peuple, et ton Dieu sera mon Dieu ; où tu mourras je mourrai, et j'y serai enterrée. Que l'Éternel me traite...
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LibriVox recording of Ruth Erskine's Son, by Pansy. Read by TriciaG. Seventh book in the Chautauqua Girls series. Written by Isabella Alden under the pseudonym “Pansy.” Erskine, Ruth's son (a 5-year-old at the end of Judge Burnham’s Daughters ) is now a grown man, and Ruth is 50-something. He brings home an American wife from Paris, a woman who seems to want to tear apart mother and son. But Irene has some big secrets to hide. (Summary by TriciaG) For further information, including links...
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LibriVox recording Ruth, by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. Read by Cynthia Lyons. The book is a social novel, dealing with Victorian views about sin and illegitimacy. It is a surprisingly compassionate portrayal of a ‘fallen woman’, a type of person normally outcast from respectable society. The title of the novel refers to the main character Ruth Hilton, an orphaned young seamstress who is seduced and then abandoned by gentleman Henry Bellingham. Ruth, pregnant and alone, is taken in by a...
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LibriVox recording of Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill, by Alice B. Emerson. Brave, adventurous and loyal, recently-orphaned Ruth Fielding is sent to live with her estranged Uncle Jabez at the Red Mill in Cheslow, New York. A new town means making new friends, and the teenage Ruth quickly befriends the children of a wealthy merchant. But as the relationship between her and her uncle becomes strained and she attempts to become friends with a very disagreeable girl, will Ruth's cheery disposition be...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Success by Rupert Brooke. This was the weekly poetry project for April 19th, 2009. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (9MB)
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LibriVox recording of Summer in a Garden and Calvin, A Study of Character, by Charles Dudley Warner. Read by Mark Penfold. This is Warner's contemplative and humorous account of the wondrous and mysterious workings of a garden he tended for 19 weeks. After this is a essay of remembrance for Warner's beloved cat, Calvin. (Summary by Mark Penfold) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the...
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LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Summer Evening by John Clare. This was the weekly poetry project for July 26th, 2009. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . Download M4B (7MB)
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LibriVox recording of Sunbeams by George Wilbur Peck. Read by Arnold Banner and Melora Campbell. George W. Peck was at times a writer, newspaper publisher and politician. Many of the Sunbeam essays had been published in Peck's paper, "The Sun", as amusing and often critical comments on social and political subjects, typically current in the beginning of the 1900's. Topics are often 'small town' United States, and Peck's gentle sarcasm or portrayals much resembles that of Twain....
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LibriVox recording of The Sword of Antietam, by Joseph A. Altsheler. "The Sword of Antietam" tells a complete story, but it is one in the chain of Civil War romances, begun in "The Guns of Bull Run" and continued through "The Guns of Shiloh" and "The Scouts of Stonewall." The young Northern hero, Dick Mason, and his friends are in the forefront of the tale. (Summary from the Foreword) For further information, including links to online text, reader...
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LibriVox recording of The Symposium, by Plato, translated by Benjamin Jowett. Read by Geoffrey Edwards. The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with the genealogy, nature and purpose of love, on another level the book deals with the topic of knowledge, specifically how does one know what one knows. The topic of love is taken up in the form of a group of speeches, given by a group of men at a...
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LibriVox recording of The Annals Vol 3 by Publius Cornelius Tacitus, translated by Alfred John Church and William Jackson Brodribb, read by LibriVox volunteers. The Annals was Tacitus' final work, covering the period from the death of Augustus Caesar in the year 14. He wrote at least 16 books, but books 7-10 and parts of books 5, 6, 11 and 16 are missing. Book 6 ends with the death of Tiberius and books 7-12 presumably covered the reigns of Caligula and Claudius. The remaining books cover the...
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LibriVox recording of The Tale Of Tommy Fox By Arthur Scott Bailey. Read by Lucy Burgoyne. Baileys writing has been described thusly by the Newark Evening News: Mr. Bailey centered all his plots in the animal, bird and insect worlds, weaving natural history into the stories in a way that won educators approval without arousing the suspicions of his young readers. He made it a habit to never write down to children and frequently used words beyond the average juvenile vocabulary, believing that...
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LibriVox recording of TELL US ANOTHER! STORIES THAT NEVER GROW OLD, by WINFRID HERBST, SDS. Read by Maria Therese. A collection of 65 little stories for the Catholic child (and adult), designed to captivatingly teach the truths and morals of the faith. This is the companion volume to "Just Stories" by the same author. (Summary by Maria Therese) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to...
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Librivox recording of Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser. Read by LibriVox Volunteers. Theodore Dreiser (1871–1945) was an American author of the naturalist school, known for dealing with the gritty reality of life. Sister Carrie (1900) is his first novel and tells the story of a young country girl who moves to the big city (Chicago) where she starts realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to powerful men and later as a famous actress. Dreiser and his wife significantly...
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Librivox recording of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving. The quiet Dutch community of Sleepy Hollow lay in the Adirondack mountains on the western shore of the mighty Hudson River in America's colonial period. The solitude of the woods was breathtaking, and not even a schoolmaster was immune from the eerie miasma which everyone knew permeated the dense forest. Written in 1820, Washington Irving's The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow has become a classic of American literature, and has...
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Source: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/41
LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Smoke Upon Your Altar Dies by Rudyard Kipling. This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 6, 2013. Joseph Rudyard Kipling was an English short-story writer, poet, and novelist chiefly remembered for his tales and poems of British soldiers in India, and his tales for children. Kilping was one of the most popular writers in England, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in...
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LibriVox recording of The Smoky God or A Voyage to the Inner World, by Willis George Emerson. Read by Jay Sands. The Smoky God, or A Voyage Journey to the Inner Earth is the narrative of an aged Norwegian sailor compelled before he dies to tell the story of how he found a passageway to the center of the earth and discovered a world peopled with giants. (Summary by Jay Sands) For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if...
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LibriVox recording of The Snow-Burner, by Henry Oyen. Read by Roger Melin. The Snow-Burner is what the Native Americans called Reivers, and it was a rough and tumble life in the land where Reivers chose to live up to his name. The name was attributed to Reivers upon his proof after arriving in the north country because of his ability to defeat all perceived enemies in whatever means was necessary; whether by brute force and tough action, or by sheer cunning which he had gained living in the...
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Librivox's Spanish Poetry Collection 002: a collection of 10 Spanish language, public-domain poems. For more information on our readers, see our catalog page: http://librivox.org/spanish-poetry-collection-002/ For more free audiobooks, or to become a volunteer reader, please visit librivox.org M4B Audiobook (7MB)
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LibriVox recording of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town, by Stephen Leacock, from the Gutenberg e-text #3533 , in the public domain. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is a sequence of stories by Stephen Leacock, first published in 1912. It is generally considered to be one of the most enduring classics of Canadian humorous literature. The fictional setting for these stories is Mariposa, a small town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti. Although drawn from his experiences in Orillia, Ontario,...
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LibriVox recording of Three Hundred Tang Poems, Volume 4, by various authors. Read by volunteer readers. Compiled around 1763, 'Three Hundred Tang Poems' is the standard collection of the poetic art of the Tang Dynasty (618 to 907). Volume Four has poems in the style 七言律詩 'Seven character regular verse' (poems 170 to 223)....
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LibriVox recording of Tea-table Talk , by Jerome K. Jerome. Read by Ruth Golding. As the New York Times said in 1903, this lesser-known work by Jerome K. Jerome does not display "the wit of Congreve or even the glittering sort Mr. Jerome employs in some of his other books." It takes the form of imaginary conversations between the writer and a number of un-named characters at the afternoon tea table. The Woman of the World, the Old Maid, the Girton Girl, the Philosopher and the Minor...
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LibriVox recording of Tecumseh, by Ethel T. Raymond. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers Tecumseh was a leader of the Shawnee and a large tribal confederacy that opposed the United States during the War of 1812. He became a folk hero remembered by many Canadians for his defense of their country. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia) This is volume 17 in the Chronicles of Canada series. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other...
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LibriVox recording of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, by Anne Bronte. Read by a full cast. A mysterious young widow arrives at Wildfell Hall, an Elizabethan mansion which has been empty for many years, with her young son. She lives there under an assumed name, Helen Graham, and very soon finds herself the victim of local slander. Refusing to believe anything scandalous about her, Gilbert Markham discovers her dark secrets. In her diary Helen writes about her husband's physical and moral decline...
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Librivox recording of The Slipper Point Mystery by Augusta Huiell Seaman. Read by J. M. Smallheer. When fourteen year old Sally Carter decides to share the secret she has discovered on Slipper Point with her new friend Doris Craig, she couldn't possibly imagine where the solution to this intriguing mystery will lead them! Augusta Huiell Seaman is the author of over 40 historical fiction and mystery novels for older children most of which are currently out of print. The Slipper Point Mystery was...
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